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Notes for Women in Psychology

Feminist psychologists saw the disparity of men in the eld (particularly owing to

the readily available test subjects of men.

-raditional Psychology! "ndrocentric discipline

-Women as force for change in psychology

-#econd Wave Women$s %ovement! #trong &hetoric

-hese pioneers stressed 'ualitative nature of the eld.

-reat struggle to maintain a rm progression of the discipline) given the di*ering

and vast feminist ideologies.

+iberal Feminism

-#tresses women$s legal and societal egalitarianism in relation to men. his can be

seen as the bedroc, of feminism) given its broad and fundamental sensibility.

&adical Feminism

-Primary assumption is based on male construct and domineering hold on women as

the most rudimentary form of oppression) which all women eperience. ac,le thesuprerstructure to criti'ue the disparity in power between the sees.

Women of olor Feminism

-his asserts that other social constructs (race) ethnicity) etc./ cannot be considered

independent of feminism. White women dominated the eld) thus neglecting the

subjugation specic to blac, and 0ispanic women.

ultural Feminism-1mphasi2es that women are di*erent from men) having uni'ue characteristics and

values that warrant respect and recognition. his ideological lens proved divisive in

the research conducted by various scholars) as well as the conclusions drawn from

them.

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"ll of these schools of thought belong to di*erent camps) but the results are

generally processed through the frames of liberal and cultural feminism. 3ronic)

these (unsurprisingly/ belong to the least controversial) less comparatively

marginali2ed group.

hese) by and large) are gaining legitimacy with the 2eitgeist.

ommon elements among feminist perspectives!

-4aluing women

-Need for social change

-#tress that no camps carry more credibility than the other.

ontrast with onservatism

-raditional gender arrangements are justied on biological or religious grounds.

he 5ac,lash against Feminism

-onservatism) in part) has helped to stigmati2e feminism. his renders forward-

thin,ing individuals loath to identify as a feminist.

%echanisms of 5ac,lash!

-1mphasis on a biologically deterministic di*erence in se.

-6#traw feminists)7 a ,ind of ctional depiction of feminists as radicals bent on some

variant of world domination.

hin,ing ritically "bout &esearch

-onsider who is funding and what they are writing about.

What8

Which theory.

0"&9ing (0ypothesi2ing "fter &esearch 9nown/

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-his is a deceiving practice in which the individual writes their research analysis

after her hypothesis is ,nown.

0ow8

%ethodology8 Practical results:or only statistical ones8

3mpact8

-+ong-term interpretation8 (own research on #0 of men/

-Publication biases8

et hemes

-Psychological gender di*erences are typically small and inconsistent.

-People react di*erently to men and women.

-Women are less visible than men in many important areas8

-Women vary widely from one another8

-;on$t stop at the mean

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"dditionally) we alter our public life to the epectations of our respective in-group.

#elf-fullling prophecy! own epectations 6ma,e7 epected predicted events

manifest.

here are many cultural manifestations of such self-fullling prophecies. %en are

more li,ely to ma,e eye contact than women) for eample.

#eist imagery leaves the implication that women value achievement less.

%en judge women as less competent. 3t is believed) however) that the focus is

generally more centered on women$s bodies.

-1mphasis on feminine beauty.

-3mprobable weight statistics

-1*ects on women!

+ow self-image

he more fre'uently one is eposed to the image the more inculcated one becomes.

3nterpersonal and social>cultural

1ducation! Psychology of Women< Women$s studies